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thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy
legs, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy
shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and
no man shall resist me.
4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name,
the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no
more be called the lady of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted
my inheritance, and have given them into thy
hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon
the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding
heavy.
7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for
ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart,
neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.
8 And now hear these things, thou that art
delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in
thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides
me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not
know barrenness.
9 These two things shall come upon thee sud-
denly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All
things are come upon thee, because of the multi-
tude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness
of thy enchanters.
10 And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness,
and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy
wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived
thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and
besides me there is no other.
11 Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt
not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall
fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not
keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly,
which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with
the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast
laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit
thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.
13 Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy
counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save
thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted
the months, that from them they might tell the
things that shall come to thee.
14 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt
them, they shall not deliver themselves from the
power of the flames: there are no coals where-
with they may be warmed, nor fire, that they
may sit thereat.
15 Such are all the things become to thee, in
which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from
thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way,
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Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that
are called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear
by the name of the Lord, and make mention of
the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.
2 For they are called of the holy city, and are
established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of
hosts is his name.
3 The former things of old, I have declared,
and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have
made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and
they came to pass.
4 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy
neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as
brass.
5 I foretold thee of old, before they came to
pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My
idols have done these things, and my graven and
molten things have commanded them.
6 See now all the things which thou hast